-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > On Friday 07 July 2006 21:22, Rafael Fernández López wrote: > >> Second thing that I'd improve is a security one. I know that "emerge" >> is a very cared package, but it is a script. Suppose that someone >> commits portage with a emerge failure in its code (he forgot a comma >> !!)... if someone updates portage won't be able to update it again >> because it will fail ever and ever again... So I suggest to have a >> backuped emerge script that we are sure that worked (like the last >> emerge tool that was used), and if the new emerge tool is mistaken (so >> that user doesn't need to know python) only has to run "regenemerge" for >> example, and will have the latest emerge working tool. > > once upon a time, there was a portage-rescue.... > > seems, that it is gone (why?) but you can still find it here: > http://dev.gentoo.org/~carpaski/portage_rescue/ >
Look inside $PORTDIR/sys-apps/portage/files/README.RESCUE and you'll see this: Please see http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/doc/manually-fixing-portage.xml for a recovery guide for a broken portage installation. Zac -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFErxcY/ejvha5XGaMRAi8xAJ92qQJwuahjZ3IQzVJdoZ9fh8QZvACcCsDc ml2Uz4PQWYGAOClpZVhDajg= =s4iZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
